Watchmen Director's Cut movie / PlayStation 3 game Blu-ray combo now available
By Vladislav Savov 
posted Jul 21st 2009 8:24PM
posted Jul 21st 2009 8:24PM
posted Jul 21st 2009 8:24PM
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boooring. Theyd be priced at £50 id imagine
you only find it boring because your poor Xbox disk with 9gb of storage can't hold a movie and a game especially an HD movie!
Well, here's a question for the Sony fanboy; how come they're using two Blu-ray disks for this? Isn't the whole point not to have multiple disks?
Ignatus...probably because they are working on the technology...they probably haven't figured out a way for a normal (non PS3) blu-ray player to read JUST the movie part and skip the game part yet.
@Jon: They also haven't figured out the technology to put an XBox game on the same disc as a Blu-Ray disc. They'd have to put that on two discs, too.
not boring. just plain dumb.
if you loose the disc, you loose both the game AND the movie. i rather have mines separately.
Well if you lost it, you can only blame yourself for it.
I cant wait till we can just download / stream any movie or game we want just like music now.
^
Well you can actually do that now.
But the quality most of the time delayed.
Fail, isn't there the ultimate deluxe unrated super-doopercalifragilistic version coming out this Xmas?
Yes, there is a five disc ultimate edition coming out but nobody know what all will be included. Only thing people know for sure is that Black Freighter will be cut into the film and one of the discs will be the motion comics.
I bought the Amazon edition of the Directors cut... arrived today. I love my Owl Ship :)
Yeah i just got the directors cut version too. Havent been able to watch it yet but i cant wait to see what new scenes it has.
Uh huh. Since when has Sony believed in financial incentives?
It's not the first. I have "Stranglehold" with a copy of "hard boiled" on the same disc for PS3.
Only the collectors edition had the film on the disc. But yes you are correct it was the first of it's kind.
The DVD for Pitch Black had the Chronicles of Riddick demo
I love it when a company releases a new, very useful type of product, but they miss the point and totally butcher the execution.
Then they stop releasing that type of product because it wasn't very successful.
when i first looked at the picture i thought it was one of those old burger king kids meal pc promo disc..
...not to be confused with THIS Burger King promo: http://gawker.com/5301856/
Everything made for my personal demographic should come in one big boxset, updated every month. Think of how much easier marketing would be, and controlling the content. It costs less than selling them individually, and the consumer only has to make one decision.
Problem is that there haven't been many good games based on movies, and that's something unlikely to change in the future. Until that change comes, I'd rather just buy good movies, and buy good games, and forget about hybrid discs.
You found your own site? What, did you lose it or something?
The Street Fighter Anniversary Collection game had the SFII movie in its entirety...but that was then and this is now.
I hope these PS3/Blu-ray hybrid discs don't catch on. Something will have to suffer if the studios are to cram PS3 game(s), the movie, and movie extras onto a Blu-ray disc. Most likely, they will compromise on video bitrate.
Exactly. If I'm buying a blu-ray disc, it's because I want the best possible presentation of a movie available. Extra features are one thing because I can access them, but I really don't want to have space stolen (and price inflated) for a game that goes with a system that I may never own.
Not to mention that 95% of licensed movie games are pure shovelware.
Hey how about I take the ?ref=uin1248096238 off the end of the url would like it if I went to your site then?
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Games based on movies suck. Movies based on games suck. 'Nuff said.
Well, I enjoyed the Tomb Raider movies.
Well this is a game based on a film that is based on a comic.
great, just what sony wanted, everything on their pos bluray disk. ill pass. DL FTW.
they should have just put this in with the release today and not charge extra. The game is 3 hours tops...
I've never really liked it when they pack two movies onto a single DVD. This just seems all the more off-putting to me.
Ive reported like 3 of his comments already and nothing has been done about this tool. Engadget or AOL whoever is in charge of the comment system needs to improve it a lot. Let us edit our comments, dont randomly change my picture back and forth from previous ones which never showed up before, and even though you dont support html dont not show characters which could be used for it but arent.
kind of funny how a movie on a game disc seems plausible, but a game on a movie doesn't.
there just isn't a market for this without good games. and if it is, the chance that both are good is very slim. really making a difference with Blu-ray Sony. Blu-ray for consoles this gen equals high cost and lazy programming. Everyone wants a price drop except Sony... i wonder why.
One of the worst movies ever...even seeing it at the Imax couldnt save it.
Don't you mean "The End is Nigh"?
I loved the movie but the "The End is Nigh" game was complete rubbish.
I think this is a great step forward not just for gamers.
In the past gaming systems were just for games but now the tech has moved so far forward that these systems are becoming more of a full family home entertainment system and therefor this kind of combination is great, especially if it saves on money.
Its becoming increasingly popular for films to then make games, not just for a revenue purpose but also to immerse the viewer into a more involved concept.
OK the PS3 has the advantage of Gig space but I'm sure if this takes off as well as i think it will then I'm sure there be a resolve to compressing the data to fit onto smaller Gig spaced devices.